mao tse tung
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No, no, no.
Level up, not down.
You (or London) being in tier 3 in sympathy with Nottingham would not make my life better by one iota. You sharing my 'misery' would not reduce it either.
I want to be able to go for a bit of dinner with the wife and kids every now and then over Christmas. I want to be able to sit with Mrs Pope and had a coffee, maybe even a slice of cake as we put this rancid year behind us. I could live with tier 3 when shops and hospitality was open with restrictions.
Not being able to do that for an indeterminate about of time (realistically, months) and the genuine concern that it is going to be the final straw for large numbers of businesses really does make me angry. And I also think it is an economic catastrophe in the making that is unnecessary. I would like to imagine that more than 5 minutes was taken deciding Nottingham's fate, but I honestly doubt it was more than a 2 minute paper exercise; 800,000 people consigned to long term social, cultural and economic misery at a cursery glance of a graph
I don't want other areas to suffer the same unnecessarily, I just don't want my area to experience it.
This has obviously been decided in an arbitrary manner.
Nottingham currently sits at 204 cases per 100k and sits in Tier 3 yet Ealing sits at 205, Enfield at 217, Thurrock at 222, Newham at 226 and Tower Hamlets at 230 are all in Tier 2
Nottinghamshire sits at 228 in Tier 3 which is lower than Tower Hamlets and Bexley who has 236, who are both tier 2
Where I am Warwickshire sits at 207 and Coventry 200.
Its a huge fucking joke